Mining Equipment

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I have a number of pictures of mining equipment that I will be using for a scratch build project of a copper mine.  I will be sharing them here and hope that others will add their photographs.

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Mining Cars from the Copper Mines in Jerome, Arizona.

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A few more:

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Mining cars set 3:

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A stamp mill on display at the Jerome, AZ mining museum.

[bparrish]

John ....

This will take a bit of research but some years ago a man named Bill Gustafson ran company in Southern California named Western Scale Models.  At the last he narrowed his production from HO and other to only G scale.  He then move the business to Tri Cities Washington State and then sold the whole thing off to ............ I think, something like.......... Wild West Models........ maybe in Colorado.  That company is advertising the reintroduction of O- HO- and Scale structures and clutter of mining equipment.

Bill Gustafson is out of that production I think and is only marketing western railroad related books.

I think they advertise in the Gazette.

see ya
Bob

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Bob


Thanks for the information.  I have purchased some of the HO scale Western Scale Models castings at shows, but have seen nothing on a reintroduction of their mining equipment castings.  I will do some more research. I have a large mining area planed for my layout - just in the research stage at this point. I try to pick up any good quality mining equipment castings I can find.

[GPdemayo]

Hi John:
 
Here are a couple from Park City, UT.
 

 

[ACL1504]

Great pictures!

Tom

[bparrish]

John....

Here is a link to their products line.

It dosen't look like they are moving very fast on putting some of the smaller scale stuff back into production.

Perhaps a direct phone call can rattle him for what he might have.  Often small manufacturers won't show stuff on their page of remaining stock as there isn't enough to support larger regular orders.

http://www.wildwestmodels.com/products/index.html

see ya
Bob

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Hi John:
 
Here are a couple from Park City, UT.
 

 

Greg


Great pictures - thanks of adding them to the thread.

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Great pictures!

Tom

Tom


Thanks for stopping by the thread. I really find prototype pictures helpful - I hope the rest of the forum members agree.

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John....

Here is a link to their products line.

It dosen't look like they are moving very fast on putting some of the smaller scale stuff back into production.

Perhaps a direct phone call can rattle him for what he might have.  Often small manufacturers won't show stuff on their page of remaining stock as there isn't enough to support larger regular orders.

http://www.wildwestmodels.com/products/index.html

see ya
Bob

Bob


Thanks for the current link - I will do some research and see what is still available.

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Here are a few pictures of the Mine Heads in Jerome, AZ.

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The buckets used to lift the ore to the surface.